.Patience, David. The Intel processors won't be released until March 16th.I just hope that the new Mac Pro line will be released on or near the 16th also.

The thing that drives me nuts is there are very few applications that make use of all the cores of the Mac Pro. Very few applications make use of Snow Leopard's 64-bit capabilities.I don't know of any applications that make use of Snow Leopard's OpenCL technology.Okay, okay, patience, Clark..

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well my thing with the cores and software is, yeah not a lot uses them now, but when I buy a new Mac, I buy for 7-8 years... so what will OS X (or OS XII) be like in 2018 and how much software can use multi-cores and multi-threads then ?

I'm sporting a 2003 G5 dual core now... still pretty snappy but I can see with some apps- it's slowing down. I want to retire this one at home and move it to my office at CDC** (where I have a 2001 G4 that still faster than my HP there).

**Oh that damm HP they gave me at CDC is like molasses at 4&#730;C - primarily to all the security schitt on it. But it is a snail... sap rises faster than that dang thing !! I did a mail search today and literally walked away for 10 min...

.I'm hoping that many applications will make use of OpenCL and 64-bit technology in 4 to 5 years. Actually I am lying, I am hoping it is sooner than that.

IMHO, Apple is pretty good at making computers obsolete in just a few years.

For example, the first Mac Pro came out in August 2006. It is a 32-bit computer. So it can't even take advantage of 64-bit Snow Leopard or of 64-bit applications.Many of the new video cards have 64-bit efi rom. The newest cards won't work in the 2006 Mac Pro.

The good news is the 2010 Mac Pro has 64-bit technology and should last for a long, long time.

Many people that I talk to are very enthusiastic about the 2010 Mac Pro. The one thing they are worried about is the price.

The one thing I'd do with a new Mac Pro is buy plenty of memory from a third party ventor like OWC.The main advantage of 64-bit applications is they are able to use more memory. 32-bit applications can only address 4GB of memory at a time.A 64-bit applications can address more memory than what you can put into your computer..

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